[csusbpeace] Biden Quickly Congratulates Leftist Lula On Victory In Brazil Presidential Election
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Biden Quickly Congratulates Leftist Lula On Victory In Brazil Presidential
Election
Biden lauded the "free, fair and credible elections" and delivered the swift
recognition that many saw as a key way to blunt an election challenge from
far-right Pres. Jair Bolsonaro.
Oct 30, 2022
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - OCTOBER 30: Candidate Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva speaks
after being elected president of Brazil over incumbent Bolsonaro by a thin
margin on the runoff at Intercontinental Hotel on October 30, 2022 in Sao
Paulo, Brazil. Brazil electoral authority announced that da Silva defeated
incumbent Bolsonaro and will rule the country from 2023 to 2027. (Photo by
Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images)
Alexandre Schneider via Getty Images
SAO PAULO ― President Joe Biden
<https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-biden> congratulated former leftist
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on his victory
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in the country’s presidential election Sunday night that also lauded the
elections as “free, fair, and credible elections.”
The congratulatory statement from the White House came less than an hour
after Brazil’s electoral authorities declared da Silva, who formerly led
Brazil from 2003 to 2010, as the winner of the race against right-wing
incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro has spent the last two years spreading conspiracy theories
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in an attempt to undermine the elections. Da Silva and his campaign, along
with many officials within Brazil, saw swift international recognition of the
results as key to blunting
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any potential attempt
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from Bolsonaro to contest the results
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bolsonaro-trump-brazil-january-6-insurrection_n_611e9457e4b0e5b5d8e7a21e>.
“I send my congratulations to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his election to be
the next president of Brazil following free, fair, and credible elections,”
Biden said in a statement. “I look forward to working together to continue
the cooperation between our two countries in the months and years ahead.”
The U.S. Embassy in Brazil circulated the statement
<https://twitter.com/EmbaixadaEUA/status/1586865121233702912> in Portuguese
on Twitter and other social networks.
Da Silva finished roughly 2 million votes
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ahead of Bolsonaro in a race that was a key test of Brazil’s democracy
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brazil-lula-bolsonaro-far-right-election-democracy_n_635ac016e4b044fae3e70f1d>,
which Bolsonaro has spent his presidency trying to undermine. Bolsonaro, an
ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, never congratulated or recognized
Biden’s 2020 election victory and continued to question it ahead of his first
meeting with his U.S. counterpart this summer.
Folha de S.Paulo, one of Brazil’s largest newspapers, reported Sunday that
the Biden administration also planned to send National Security Adviser Jake
Sullivan to Brazil in the coming weeks, a move the paper interpreted as meant
to help bolster the legitimacy of the election and ensure a smooth transition.
Da Silva has pledged to rebuild international relationships that have frayed
under Bolsonaro, and on Saturday said that he would seek to travel to the
United States early in his presidency.
He hailed his return to the presidency as a victory for the world’s
fourth-largest democracy in his first speech as president-elect Sunday night.
“The majority of the Brazilian people made it clear that they want more, not
less, democracy,” da Silva said in his first speech as president-elect. “They
want more social inclusion, not less. They want more, not less, equality and
fraternity in our country.”
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